Asian stock markets start the week up – Västerbotten Courier

The leading exchanges in Asia starts the week up, then Wall Street ended last week with yet another record after strong jobs numbers.

– (Concern) a possible decline in the US jobs figures have led some were on their guard. But the latest figures have extinguished the unrest, said Hitoshi Asaoka, strategist at Mizuho Trust & amp; Banking, told Bloomberg.

In the early Monday trade took Nikkei 225 Index jumped 1.3 percent, while the broader Topixindexet in Tokyo climbed 1.2 percent, driven by among other automakers Toyota, Nissan and Honda, all of which rise about 1.7 percent due to a weaker yen.

Even Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.6 percent, while the Shanghai composite index is not carried away by the general euphoria, but dropped by 0.3 percent.